Changes: God (Sha Ka Ree)

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HumanGod — The Sha Ka Ree Entity impersonating the image of the Judeo-Christian God

This entity appeared as God but was a malevolent noncorporeal being discovered by the Vulcan Sybok and the crew of the USS Enterprise-A in 2287. It was imprisoned on a planet located within the Great Barrier, near the center of the galaxy, which was believed by Sybok to be the mythical Sha Ka Ree of Vulcan mythology.

In 2287, this being assumed the identities of several mythological figures including the God of Sha Ka Ree to lure Sybok and the Enterprise to its location so that the starship could free it from imprisonment. Realizing his mistake, Sybok sacrificed his life by thrusting himself into the entity so that the Enterprise and her crew could escape. The entity was apparently destroyed by the Klingons as it was trying to kill Captain James T. Kirk. (Star Trek V: The Final Frontier)

Background

The Human image portrayed by the "God of Sha Ka Ree" from Star Trek V was portrayed by actor George Murdock. The image of the Andorian god, as well as the other two unidentified gods (shown below), were among the images proposed to represent the "many faces of God" in Star Trek V. These images, however, did not make it into the final production of the movie, but were included in the Special Features section of the Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (Special Edition) DVD.

Joe Menosky, who wrote the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Nth Degree", has said that he believes that the creature seen in this film is a renegade Cytherian. ^{(citation needed • edit)}

Apocrypha

According to the non-canon Q Continuum series of novels by Greg Cox, the Sha Ka Ree entity is known as "The One", and was exiled to the center of the galaxy for causing a civil war centered around the premature destruction of the legendary Tkon Empire millennia before being rediscovered by Captain Jean-Luc Picard. He was an associate and contemporary of 0 (pronounced "Zero", as in nothing) the Beta XII-A entity, or (*) as 0 referred to it, and Gorgan in this endeavor.

The One was referred to by 0 as the entity "who created Monotheism." He was not originally of this plane and was summoned to this universe via the Guardian of Forever.

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 The One was referred to by 0 as the entity "who created Monotheism."  He was not originally of this plane and was summoned to this universe via the [[Guardian of Forever]].
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